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GreenNews - Canada - Trucking group unveils enviro-truck plan
OTTAWA,BC,Canada -Today's Trucking -29 June 2006: -- Now that the new Conservative government has ditched Ottawa's commitment to the flawed international Kyoto protocol in favor of a made-in-Canada solution, the Canadian Trucking Alliance has some suggestions as to how the feds can clean up the environment and help carriers at the same time... In a document entitled Trucking: A Made-in-Canada Clean Air Act, the CTA outlined 14 proposed measures to reduce smog and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the freight transportation sector, including legislating speed limiters on all trucks in Canada -- a plan the carrier group has been pushing since last year... Speed limiters, tax incentives, and wide-base tires would save tones of GHG from trucks, says CTA... The industry, as CTA CEO David Bradley points out, is already out of the gates in tackling environmental responsibilities. Beginning Jan. 1, 2007 new truck models will be virtually the cleanest vehicles on the road as EPA-regulated engines will cut particulate matter (PM) -- a major contributor to smog linked to respiratory illness -- by 90 percent... The CTA claims that implementation of the measures contained in a document would have the equivalent impact -- in terms of air quality and GHG -- of removing over 200,000 heavy trucks from Canadian roads...
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